Abstract
Some incident and accident events may happen, such as earthquake, fire alarm, unstable voltage, chemical gas and chemical liquor leaking may occur in modern semiconductor manufacturing industry. In order to minimize the loss in the semiconductor production, the emergency response center (ERC) plays a quite important role in risk control. Therefore, the objective of this study is to develop the fire-detecting expert support system (FDESS) as a decision support tool that can support the supervisors of ERC in emergency operation control.After contacting with the ERC of a semiconductor industry, one gets some information about the procedure of emergency operation control. At the same time, the literatures of small interface design and emergency decision support system are reviewed. One used the Microsoft Visual Basic.NET program to establish the FDESS on intelligent mobile device. For evaluation of the different methods, each of the subjects was randomly assigned into one of two groups, the control group or experiment group. The control group used manual to learn about the tasks of safety inspection and emergency response control, whereas the experiment group used personal digital assistant (PDA) device to learn about the tasks of safety inspection and emergency response control.By the results of the experiment, we found that the method of handling the emergency response control significantly influences performance in fire control, the use of FDESS group spent significantly less time and got significantly more test scores in fire control than traditional group. In the future, it is worth to enrich the FDESS for emergency response control and risk assessment.